Category: Marketing
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Where Should I Publish My Book?
One of the questions I get asked the most is this: Where do I publish my book? The question comes in different forms, such as “Should I just publish on Amazon?” or “Do I publish my ebook on Amazon, but my print book on Ingram?” or “Where’s the best place to publish an ebook?” But…
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How to Price Match your eBook to Free on Amazon
Now, I’ve posted a lot over the years about publishing your ebook on different sales channels like Kobo, Apple, and Google Books. I’ve also encouraged people to use Draft2Digital (D2D), which is a great way to get your ebook out there to libraries and more, plus D2D has a REALLY nice ebook conversion tool that…
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Awesome Free Ads Course by Bryan Cohen
Hey everyone! Just a quick blog in the midst of my blogging hiatus (which I hope will end soon…). If you’re looking to sell more books, you REALLY need to check out Bryan Cohen’s free Amazon Ads Challenge! It starts on October 12, so you need to sign up soon! The Challenge One of the…
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NetGalley for Reviews!
 Sometimes it can be hard to get reviews, yet we all need them! There are many sites out there that offer review services. They vary in price and benefit. I’ve blogged on BookSirens and BookSprout as two great options, but today I wanted to post a really quick blog about NetGalley.  NetGalley is…
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Enabling Promotions with Kobo
  All right! After a depressingly long absence from the world of blogging, I’m going to start back in with a short blog!   So… here we go with a blog about Kobo Promotions!   A lot of authors publish exclusively with Amazon. There are benefits to this (Amazon does it’s best…
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Formatting Your Book Blurb for Amazon
  The Book Blurb, or the book description, is one of the most important marketing issues an author needs to address. Getting that description “right” is so important.   Authors will often just write a little mini-version of their book, outlining the story, rather than write a proper description that includes a real…
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Successful Book Tables!
My apologies for being so absent from the blog-front for a while. I’ve been hit and miss with it for about four months now. I have some health issues that sap my energy at times, and I have to pace myself. I actually wrote most of this blog months ago, but it’s time to finish…
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Using Square as an Author
 All right… let’s imagine a scenario. You are selling your books just fine on Amazon and other sites, but you have a case of printed paperbacks at home, and someone wants to buy one. Unfortunately, they only have a credit card on hand, and you’re not sure what to do… because you don’t know…
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Reading with Your Kids Podcast!
Hey Authors, I want to pass this along to all of you (again). Reading with Your Kids Podcast is a great way to get a little bit of information out there about your book (if you write children’s/MG books)! Today they posted my latest interview with them about Jerry the Squirrel: Volume Two. If you’d…
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Using Bookbub Featured Deals with J. A. Paul
 A short while ago I asked a friend of mine, author J. A. Paul, some questions about one of the ways he sells his books. I had actually first become acquainted with this author through Bookbub and thought, “I want to understand Bookbub better. He’s probably the guy to ask!” Bookbub is a system…